In defense of resistance
Resistance to unjust power and authority has long been the angry energy of everyday struggle, the defiant democratization of progressive social movements, and the motor force of progressive social change. As critical criminologists, then, our role is to defend the practice of resistance and to explo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Critical criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 603-619 |
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| Summary: | Resistance to unjust power and authority has long been the angry energy of everyday struggle, the defiant democratization of progressive social movements, and the motor force of progressive social change. As critical criminologists, then, our role is to defend the practice of resistance and to explore its radical potential. In doing so, we can usefully investigate emergent moments of resistance that transcend narrow notions of individual intentionality, and we can trace the intricate interplay between immediate acts of resistance and larger dynamics of social transformation. We can focus especially on forms of resistance that both reveal the operations of power and reverse those operations in the interest of social justice. Most importantly, we can move beyond the sort of faux-radical pessimism that denies the potential of contemporary resistance, and embrace instead a multitude of resistant possibilities. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis. Seite 617-619 |
| ISSN: | 1572-9877 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10612-019-09456-6 |